This is always a big day to remind us of this great human experiment called America.  Many of us don’t really

remember why we celebrate it;  we chiefly focus on the signing of the Declaration of Independence.  But this day, July 4th, 1776 ushered in 7 years of war of which I am sure people probably wondered what it was they were all fighting for.  We are told little of the details.  This war, however, resulted in the deaths of 5% of the white American  males.  Women and blacks who also fought were not counted in the final death numbers.  It was the costliest war in American history.

The colonists could not give in or go back as all of them were immigrants.  Most of them had left Europe or England to escape lives there.  They saw the British trying to impose that same type of life on them in …